A BBC reporter tweet displaying a picture of a bathroom with two toilets in one stall caught attention from millions of internet users who made the picture go viral, the Associated Press reported.
BBC reporter Steven Rosenberg seemed to be humored when he walked into the bathroom at the cross-country skiing and biathlon center where next month's Winter Olympics in Sochi will be taking place and found the two toilets placed together, sharing one roll of toilet paper, according to BBC News.
"Seeing double in the Gentlemen's Loo at the Olympic Biathlon Centre," Rosenberg wrote in his original tweet, BBC reported. The picture became an instant online joke, and caught the eye of one of Russian President Vladimir Putin's enemies.
Opposition leader Alexei Navalny commented on the picture and questioned where the $50 billion budget for the Olympic sites had been used, according to BBC.
In a Retweet of the photo, Navalny wrote: "This is a men's toilet in a Sochi Olympics media centre for 1.5bn roubles [£27m; $45m], according to BBC.
According to BBC, the Biathlon Centre was finished almost two years ago and was backed by the Russian state gas company Gazprom.
"The building is one of the biggest and most comfortable structures of its kind in the world," a Gazprom representative told Russia's Interfax news agency at the time, the BBC reported.
Though the double toilets have gained media attention around the world, double toilets are not uncommon in Russia, according to social media user posted pictures showing other similar toilets around Russia, the AP reported.
R-Sport news agency editor Vasily Konov said communal toilets such as the one seen by the BBC reporter are common at Russian soccer stadiums, according to the AP.
"Why are the BBC folks scaring us?" Konov posted on his personal Twitter account along with pictures of toilets in a large room, presumably from one of the soccer stadiums. "This is what the gents look like at football stadiums in Russia."
Others joked the toilets were for President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev who have been nicknamed "tandem," according to the AP.
No comment was given by the Sochi organizing committee about the picture. The Winter Olympic Games in Sochi are scheduled to begin on February 7, the AP reported.
